Beyond the Rhetoric

Thor (2011) Superhero movies can be very entertaining if they are well done and you are willing to suspend your disbelief. That’s why movies like The Dark Knight and Iron Man worked so well. Even when you start including superpowers, rather than just rich men with their fancy toys, you can still achieve some great [...]

What happens when you take a pretty typical movie formula, but throw a cultural wrench into the fray? That’s effectively what you get with Breakaway, a movie that was originally titled Speedy Singhs. A group of Indo-Canadians in suburban Toronto form a hockey team in a small time league, because they can’t gain any acceptance [...]

Arthur (2011) For some reason or another, I’ve become a big fan of the Russell Brand brand of comedy. There’s just something about the way that he carries himself (along with the somewhat peculiar British accent) that lends itself to some great laughs. At the same time, it’s not like I went in expecting an [...]

I just need to get away. It’s a feeling that is very common among, well, pretty much everyone. We’ve grown so accustomed to our daily routines, going through the same kinds of motions each and every day, and this can make life a tad on the boring side. At the same time, most of us [...]

I am Canadian. It is very much a part of who I am and how I choose interact with the world. This blog post might have been more appropriate for Canada Day, but the idea didn’t really dawn on me at the time. Oh well. Growing up, I watched a lot of television. A good [...]